Have any other teams not started building yet? We are planning to start on monday, but I want to know if this happened to anyone else
Building what exactly? Prototypes/practice bot/final bot?
Do you have CAD relatively put together?
The CAD is almost done but we barely have a prototype and nothing towards the final bot
I wouldn’t worry. It’s still somewhat early to have already started building the actual Robot instead of the prototype. (In my opinion, that is. I’m a Rookie on the team so I’m only going with my gut here, lol).
I was just about to ask the same thing. We have our Cad 99% done and our frame is going to the powder coating (a first for us this year), but other than getting the gears, motors, motor controllers, etc… we have almost nothing. 
Hoping to start putting together all the parts this coming week.
Don’t worry about it. Assuming you have good design and decently precise fabrication of parts, assembling the bot does not take very long.
As a word of advice, make sure you have the CAD and a person who worked on the CAD present when assembling. Depending on your design, things may get confusing without the 3D render and people familiar with it.
Practice bot is coming along nicely. CAD is 100% done.
Competition robot parts have started to be machined/fabricated, yet no real assembly has taken place on it.
We are in a similar boat. We have barely built anything and our robot is still mostly in the computer. We plan to send out our custom parts between now and Wednesday at the latest. We also have several large VEX/McMaster/Other orders that will also be going out shortly.
We ordered our metal from Onlinemetals.com. it was a lot cheaper then mcmastercarr for basic aluminum stock.
Hopefully you’re either building a KoP or waiting on CAD parts. Time flows like a river. We’re planning on building from CAD in the next few days.
We have 99% of the CAD done also, we are just figuring out if everything is going to work like mechanically. We have a prototyped shooter that when is set up properly can constantly keep hitting shots in the high school at 13 feet away (about farthest back we think we can be). We are waiting for Rhino Tracks to ship to start building the chassis. We are hoping to get some aluminum cut so we can get a chance to get it welded. We organized all of the parts we have and the main problem we are going to run into is where to put everything. We have a total of 11 motors so we will need to position all of those motor controllers somewhere. But I don’t think you should worry about not having a final robot started on, as long as you have been designing and prototyping.
If your plan is good, i.e your CAD is on point, any prototypes have worked satisfactorily, you have a schedule laid out for build objectives, then you should be able to put together a robot and finish it with enough time to practice.
It’s just a matter of making sure everyone’s doing their appointed job and meeting deadlines.
Our team didn’t finish the robot 2013 - 2015. So this year to prevent that we decided to pretty much scrap all prototyping focusing on what people posted on CD and Ri3D. And go right for the comp bot. We should be done with 80% of it today. (still waiting on our waterjet sponsors parts). The next 20% will be done latest by Friday. But it is not really up to us. This allows us to get quite a bit of practice before our week 0 event and after that we will have a ton of practice going into our week 2 event.
Honestly, we’re in the same boat as you are: CAD almost done, some prototypes, nothing final built. We’re also way behind our self-imposed schedule.
The thing is, we do this every year. A lot of teams do: all it means is that we’re putting more effort into having a solid, coherent design. Although it would probably be safer (read: less stressful) to have started building earlier, it’s easier to make revisions and edits in CAD than on the actual robot.
If I were you, I wouldn’t lose sleep over where you are now, just focus on moving ahead expeditiously.
We have not built yet, CAD is complete, parts are on order and the waterjeting begins next week. Once the design is done and parts are ordered, once things have arrived, things go together quickly. Team LHS 2522 - Royal Robotic
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1/2 game pieces are done
one drive base done with 8 inch solid wheels, and some prototyping done.
2nd drive base with 8 inch pneumatic wheels part way done.
Practice area almost finished being cleaned
Will finish 2nd bot this week and testing.
Will start drivers training with the 1st bot and solid wheels.
Testing prototypes over game elements.
I think everyone is working hard and having fun.
Good job guys!
What people seem to forget is that just because you have a schedule doesn’t make the schedule good. Take time at the end of the season and ask if your schedule actually made sense. I noticed on our schedule our strategy was supposed to be done BEFORE Q&A which I found a little bit sketchy.
“SIR WE HAVEN’T FINISHED BUILDING ROME.”
“Calm down dude it has only been a day…”
CAD was finished around week 1, and we’ve been building our prototype robot which is close enough to being finished to make me confident and positive in our design. For electrical our board is mounted to the prototype and while we’re waiting for it to be finished we’re going ahead and working on the second one with other groups that are also getting started on it. Our day today was productive which definitely helps with how everyone works.
Our team has tried to utilize a method of simultaneous CAD design and prototyping. We spent the first week CADing individual subsystems, but as soon as we started to get in each other’s way(everyone trying to put their subsystem on the chassis at the same time), we moved around 2/3 of our core CAD team into prototyping the shooter and intake. We didn’t have anything built for the final robot until last tuesday(1/26), but with the CAD finished everything, is coming together, which fast that it makes up for the late start on fabrication.